When using graph with graphite, from and until show how doesnt render anything when the period is smaller 12 hours.

[laapsaap]

graphite:8080/render?from=11%3A23_20131031&until=11%3A53_20131031&format=json&target=collectd.mysql02_servername_lan.mysql.prtg.mysql_commands.%2A

When using graph with graphite, from and until somehow doesnt render anything when the period is smaller 12 hours.

So i opened development.log to see what is wrong, I just cant understand why. But what does work is using ;

from=-5minutes
from=-2hours etc

Anyways I am editing the source to use that instead, its recommended on graphite site. But really dont understand why from and until doesnt work for smaller periods.

[fdietz]

Nice finding!

[laapsaap]

Just wondering if anyone else have the same problem, so i can flag this bug at Graphite

[fdietz]

I actually had the same issue when working on the new graphite widget, but
didn't follow up on it with the Graphite Web project.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, laapsaap [email protected] wrote:

Just wondering if anyone else have the same problem, so i can flag this
bug at Graphite

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[mikeforbes]

I'm getting this too - look at the URL - for some reason it's requesting %3A which is an HTML character code for a colon : instead of just using a colon.

What part of the code did you edit to fix it?

[mikeforbes]

Answering myself, and leaving this so others that might find it:

I edited team_dashboard/app/models/graphite_url_builder.rb, and changed this section:

def datapoints_svg_url(targets, from, to, options = {})
query = []
query << Array(targets).reject(&:blank?).map { |t| "target=#{CGI.escape(t)}" }
query << "from=#{CGI.escape(format(from))}"
query << "until=#{CGI.escape(format(to))}"


to:

def datapoints_svg_url(targets, from, to, options = {})
query = []
query << Array(targets).reject(&:blank?).map { |t| "target=#{CGI.escape(t)}" }
query << "from=-2hours"
query << "until=now"


There's probably a better way of doing this, but I needed it to work quickly for a demo 😁